Written by a practitioner of mathematics, philosophy, taiji, gluten-free cooking, chant, meditation, gardening, and renovation, with no particular end in mind. Were there an end, it would come too soon, and the Path would cease to Wander.

18 October 2007

Amazingly, a random note I put on the whiteboard in Math108 on Tuesday has not been erased. I didn't expect it to last one day, let alone two. Under the influence of hot chocolate, yerba maté, and decongestant, I put a note next to someone else's labeling of the "Laws of Exponents": *$50 fine for violations. If it had instead said "Rules of Exponents," I almost certainly would have crossed out 6 and added underneath "There is no Rule 6." I did that one year when I was working up there. I would repeatedly cross out "6" and someone else would come along and fix it...up until someone (was that you, Fibonacci?) decided to put "12/2" instead of 6. That I was willing to leave alone. ^/^

Also on Tuesday, I decided that the sign reading "This computer is having digestive difficulties" needed elaboration. I wrote "*GURGLE*GURGLE*" on it. That sign is also still there, although, oddly, someone has reversed it so that the writing is now up-side-down to anyone who sits there.